Whether you have difficulty with sales and selling yourself, or you have trouble bottling up the magic that is your passion for selling your product or service to your team members, it is essential that you learn how to build an effective and scalable sales strategy for your business to ascend the growth curve.

Virtual events aren’t a new concept, but when the global pandemic struck, organizations found themselves having to forgo in-person events for virtual ones. At that time, research showed that virtual events were up 1,000 percent, but event planners were still playing catch-up. Though 76 percent of event planners were going virtual, only 40 percent of those said they were knowledgeable about how to plan and execute these events.

Omnichannel is a multichannel approach to sales that focus on providing seamless customer experience whether the client is shopping online from a mobile device, a laptop or in a brick-and-mortar store. Omnichannel gives your B2B customers a unified experience no matter what digital device or platform they are using. It follows that as B2B buyers have become accustomed to Omnichannel e-commerce in B2C, they also want and expect a seamless and consistent B2B experience, the demand is there.

Should brands be advertising and actively marketing right now? Historical data points to a pretty clear answer: If you reasonably can, then yes. So the next question is, where? which destinations are most worthy of investing time and and spend, with confidence you’ll be able to show growth and ROI?

Sales tech is defined as a set of tools that help accelerate and enhance sales productivity by enabling sales reps to use their time and customer intelligence as effectively and efficiently as possible. Sales enablement is also a subset of sales tech which has become increasingly popular as we recognize the power of content as a tool in B2B marketing and sales; and as we get better at leveraging technology to help with buyer engagement through their journey.

Studies show it takes an average of eight calls to get someone on the phone, so don’t torch all that hard work by asking something shallow like “How was your weekend?” Instead, make it memorable so that they’ll not only want to talk with you, but also remember you well after the call.

We already know that LinkedIn is responsible for 97% of the leads generated in social media so this is why it should be included in most B2B marketing strategies, this is the perfect social media to generate leads in these public because you're actually in contact with your prospects and an ambiance in an environment that actually encourages these to happen.

Having the most unique product or services or the lowest prices is not the key to success when competing in B2B, but another the most important factor is customer experience (CX) CX can not be ignored even if you've got the lowest price options, a bad experience can postpone customers and send them to your competitors. By moving to a customer-centric approach, you'll grow your customer base and occupy the highest of your field.

Customer Experience (CX) has become one among the foremost important ways companies can stand out from the crowd—and also one among the foremost confounding issues. Yet B2B companies still struggle to know how consumer trends are driving expectations, solving this problem becomes even more critical now as companies are considering the way to get over disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic. Customers needs and wants have shifted dramatically and companies that continue to move forward in the same old ways will struggle for quite some time.

Optimizing the Customer's Experience, at the end of the day, it's not the CEO, management team, or shareholders that judge whether a strategy was successful or not. It's the organization's customers - and their decisions about a company's products and services that define the ultimate success of a strategy.

Growing your business starts with a great marketing strategy. Most small business owners skip this step. They get busy with the nitty gritty of actually running their business, that a marketing strategy gets pushed to the side. A Facebook post here. A radio ad there (the sales person said you didn't want to miss out). Throw in a picture on Instagram once a month and they wonder why they aren't seeing an increase in customers.

Effective personal branding will differentiate you from the competition and allow you to build trust with prospective clients. As an entrepreneur or business owner, you have competitors. As a personal brand, however, you don’t. Sure, there might be other people and companies selling similar products and services as you, but they are not you. In fact, there is no other person in the world that is exactly like you.

Not generating leads, sales or follows? If you don’t have your sights set on a specific target audience, you’re missing out. Having a target audience makes everything easier when it comes to building a following. Create content that is specific to your target audience and you’ll begin to attract a like-minded tribe.

The 6 principles of persuasion that has been scientifically proven to be an effective tool to increase your sales revenue. There will be many unscrupulous people out there that would use this information to manipulate and coerce people into buying a product or service that is not needed or fit for purpose – in short con men / women.

Gen Z, who are they, what makes them tick, what's shaped them? Do you know the difference between a digital pioneer, or a digital native? Do you know the best traits to connect with gen Z?

As with a lot of other business disciplines, in marketing, decisions are typically informed by some kind of evidence, or so we hope, the evidence base for making marketing decisions can include lots of different things. For example, we might make use of tried and tested frameworks & textbook approaches recalled from our university days or found through a quick Google search or read of a Wikipedia page.

It is rare to jump in a sales process without facing objections, but maybe you did such a great job presenting that you made the sale with no questions asked. If you did, good for you. Most of the time, the prospect raised some objections. So how did you deal with them?

Imagine you were a luxury car company like Mercedes Benz. Would you spend money advertising in teen magazines or at high schools, or in areas where people don't drive cars? Likely not. Probably because teens can't afford your car, even though they might aspire to, and people who don't drive probably don't care about car companies

When it comes to prospecting, we know that merely making calls and talking to whoever answers the phone or is at the front desk isn't likely going to get us very far. We then actually have to have something to corner our buyer's interest, something that will shake up their status quo. We do this in the form of insights. These are pieces of information, possibly statistics, which point to a need that our buyer has and may interest them that they haven't considered yet.

To succeed in sales today, we need sales enablement to support and do the heavy lifting to ensure we have the tools we need to focus on what we are best at, selling products and services. Sales enablement enhances our skills and is badly needed in a fast-paced, overcrowded, and continuously shifting marketplace.